Rogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy

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Rogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy
Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:24 PM EST
Updated: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:59 AM EST
Scott Thompson, News On 6


Carrie Dickerson.

ROGERS COUNTY -- It's what those who fought the Black Fox plant in Rogers County all those years ago so feared: that nuclear power was too dangerous. Rallying around a soft-spoken grandmother, they made their point, and American history, at the same time.

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"Carrie could kind of see what could happen, and now we all see what could happen, we see what's happened in Japan," McCullooch said.

The Black Fox reactors were to be the same General Electric boiling water models that stand crippled now in Japan, poisoning the soil, water, air and food supply there with astounding levels of radiation.

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Kept on the defensive for nine years by Carrie, facing staggering cost overruns that would bankrupt the company and a massive rate-hike that would devastate its customers, PSO pulled the plug on Black Fox, making it the only nuclear plant under construction in American history that was stopped by citizen action

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The Carrie Dickerson Foundation website: http://www.carriedickersonfoundation.com/

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1. This is the lady who stopped PSO

I can proudly say I'm one of the protesters who could see then what Japan is showing us today. Its even worse as we thought they had some kind of a handle on the process but it turns out, as this event clearly show, that they have no idea as to what to do next if and when something does go wrong.
Carrie Rest in peace you earned it.
I was fresh home from the war bug nuts but I knew we didn't want this nuclear power plant in my back yard. I thought we'd won the battle but we only won one of the fights as 30 years later we're still engaged and enraged.

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2. I'm filled with admiration for her, and also with frustration, rage, and shame

about the failure of our own local attempts to stop the construction of the Limerick plant, which was the last nuclear power plant to be built in the US. (Certified for commercial operation in 1986). We figured that TMI would make a difference in the outcome, but it did not.

There are now more than 8 million people living within 50 miles of Limerick, which is one of the US plants built on the same model as those at Fukushima, with elevated spent fuel pools now filled to bursting.

Here's to you Carrie, a hero.

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3. Remembering Carrie with love and admiration.

She pieced a quilt to raise funds to "Stop Black Fox" and her sweet husband won it in the raffle. She was a tremendous organizer and a beautiful soul. What she did for Oklahoma by keeping nuke plants out needs to be memorized and replicated in as many states as possible. We stopped it. We won because of this determined lady. RIP, Carrie Dickerson.